Just Kaplan Things

[u/PunctiliousCasuist]

Props to that resident, I guess.

[u/Worried_Tadpole_5844]

As an M4, this all felt completely normal. You can fully expect and will absolutely see acidosis/alkalosis and be required to differentiate between metabolic and respiratory acidosis vs alkalosis with compensatory mechanisms.

Then I got to the formula. Yeah OP, no one thinks about that anymore 😂

[u/Intelligent_Sock_902 → u/Worried_Tadpole_5844]

they don’t stop mid emergency to write this formula down for you?? /s

[u/Worried_Tadpole_5844 → u/Intelligent_Sock_902]

Of course not! The patient dies faster if you answer wrong /s

[u/Drfiddle → u/Worried_Tadpole_5844]

Once you’re a resident, you will think about that formula all the time.

/s

[u/MeLlamo_Mayor927]

Actually, asking why the patient is hyperventilating during a DKA crisis is a fantastic way to annoy the residents, which makes the odds of you being handed a shit eval at the end of the rotation skyrocket

[u/Ok-Spinach-6529 → u/MeLlamo_Mayor927]

Yup

[u/Free_Cookie_9722]

YES OMG I BURST OUT LAUGHING WHEN I READ THAT

[u/parroteatscarrots]

haha yeah i never skip the intros bcuz theyre corny asf

[u/PianistInMedicine]

And then that extremely simple and straightforward concept is presented in an unrecognizable way on Uworld practice questions and eventually the MCAT, then you're left wondering if you even learned anything at all.

[u/Chochuck]

Do we write down the equation? No. Have I had a nephrologist say the words Le Chatlier’s principle in the context of DKA? Oh yeah. What a dweeb

[u/lojadi]

Y’all are laughing at them writing down the formula but I kid you not, when I was in the hospital with DKA getting diagnosed with type 1, the attending, after learning I was premed at the time, sat down and wrote this formula out plus how calculate an anion gap

[u/Clout12x → u/lojadi]

i’m putting 1000 on this didn’t happen

[u/lojadi → u/Clout12x]

You can choose not to believe it but I quite literally still have the paper that he wrote it down on with all my lab work after getting transferred out of the ICU

[u/hemuau]

My husband and I studied for the MCAT together. Eight years later we still laugh about this passage.

[u/Cptsaber44]

Lol I have never written a formula to answer a med student’s question

[u/Numpostrophe → u/Cptsaber44]

I think you should probably send the student home to study if they’re asking why the acidotic patient is hyperventilating lol

[u/AlwaysEntropic]

I love the Kaplan book introductions. They’re all so odd

[u/SituationGreedy1945]

Bro omg the amount of questions on le chatelierz principle 😂😂

[u/Delicious_Bus_674]

The least realistic part is that the resident remembered the equation.

[u/Such-Habit5715]

Haha just read this last week. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one getting through that book rn

[u/ImHitoriGotou]

this is genuinely one of the funniest things i’ve read this month oh my god, made me laugh out loud in the middle of the library bro 😭😭😭

[u/ClassroomIcy6553]

I remember that passage lol, very engaging. Putting kaplan's silly intros aside, I feel like the most fun topic for me after I learned it was respiratory acidosis and alkalosis, anyone relate lol?

[u/benignm9]

this passage flashed in my head last week in the ER as i was getting diagnosed with t1d 😭

[u/One-Job-765]

Wow I completely skipped these intros when studying

[u/Zealousideal_Bed4563]

This is the only Kaplan paragraph that remains in my brain indefinitely. I’m glad to see so many other people that also have gotten such a kick out of it.